Otis is the name used by several acts, including Enrico Otis, an electronic music artist based in Berlin and connected to Torino. The name also appears in different rock, metal and rap projects from the Netherlands, Slovakia, the United States and Canada.

Enrico Otis

Enrico Otis is an electronic music artist in Berlin, with a connection to Torino. He is listed as a person born in 1990.

Other acts called Otis

Otis from Roosendaal, the Netherlands

One Otis is a five-piece rock band from Roosendaal in the Netherlands. The members have played together for years in bands including Stockholm Syndrome and Against Time. The group forms at the end of 2005 and plays its first show in 2006. It tours in the Netherlands, Belgium, France and Spain, and shares bills with Coalesce, Nomeansno, Torche, NRA, Rise And Fall, Jello Biafra, Coliseum, Restless Youth, Born From Pain and Baroness.

The band releases a split 10-inch with Daily Fire in 2006, then issues its debut album Good Cop Bad Mood in 2007. It later puts out a limited split tape with The Unborn in June 2009, followed by the album Storm Is Coming a month later. This second album is the first part of a trilogy based on poems by Arthur Rimbaud, with Le Bateau Ivre from 1871 as its main theme. The band is compared in reviews to Helmet, Snapcase, At The Drive-In, Refused, Fugazi, Hot Water Music, The Melvins and Black Flag, and later also to Unsane, Botch, Drive Like Jehu, Minutemen, Dag Nasty and Breach. The closing 11-minute track draws comparisons with Zu, The Ex, John Zorn and Sonic Youth. The band is linked with Black Death Records and has an official website at hail-otis.com.

Otis in Slovakia

Another Otis is a rapper from Slovakia and a member of the rap group H16.

Otis from Boston

A separate Otis is a grunge, hardcore and alternative metal band from Allston, Boston, Massachusetts. It releases two albums in the 1990s: a self-titled debut and Electric Landlady. It is known in the Boston hardcore scene and later disbands.

OTIS from Austin

There is also an Austin band called OTIS, active from October 2001 to March 2004. It plays underground country, rock, blues and folk, tours frequently in central Texas, and later evolves into Youngmond Grand, Til We’re Blue Or Destroy, Radar Radar, X=X and The Space Elevators.

OTIS from Phoenix

Another OTIS is an alternative rock and post-grunge band from Phoenix, Arizona. It releases the album Abundavida.

Sons of Otis

The Canadian doom and stoner band Sons of Otis takes its name after changing from Otis following its first release, Paid to Suffer, in 1994.

Otis the deathcore band

There is also a deathcore band formed around 2008. Little else is known about it, apart from the fact that the drummer on its Filth demo later becomes the guitarist for The Eating Cave.

Otis from Kentucky

A Kentucky-grown rock and roll and southern rock band called Otis releases Eyes Of The Sun in 2017 and later issues several singles, including Last Fool in the Line in 2024.